Vanity box



Patented Oct. 14, 1924.

UNITED STATES SIMON MORRISON. OF BROOKLYN, NE`W YORK.

VANITY BOX.

Application fil/:f1 July 1I, 1922.

To all whom it may oon-cera.'

Be it known that I, SIMON MoRnIsoNi a citizen of the United States, and resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vanity Boxes7 of which the following is a specilication.

f This invention relates to vanity cases and has for itsmain object to provide a device of the mentioned character which will combine three vanity boxes in one unit so that the user may conveniently have at her disposal a mirrora a container of powder and another container of rouge at the same time and be enabled to easily hold them all with one hand.

Another object of this invention is to provide a novel unitary hinge construction which is easy and cheap to manufacture and assemble and which is adapted to rotatably secure all the three boxes together.

The invention has further objects which will be apparent as the description of the same proceeds.

The invention consists, in general, of a central box of cylindrical shape, having said unitary hinge construction attached to it, which hinge construction rotatably secures two further cylindrical boxes to the central one, said two boxes being of somewhat larger diameter than the central one and closing on said central box at its two opposing ends.

The invention further consists in certain novel details of arrangements and combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like; parts in the several views and Fig. 1 is a plan View of my vanity case in a closed position;

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view of the vanity case in a closed position, the section being taken at the line 2 2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a side view of my vanity case, the two outside boxes being partly open;

Fig. 4 is a detail view of the unitary hinge construction on a larger scale;

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of said hinge construction the section being taken at the line 55 of Fig. 4f;

Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view of the Serial No. 575,264.

hinge construction on an enlarged scale, the section being taken on. the line 6 6 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 7 is a sectional view of a portion of another modifica-tion of my vanity case.

Referring more closely to the drawings. numeral 8 indicates the central box of my vanity case on which may close at its two opposing' ends the upper box 9 and the lower box 10. The three boxes are hingedly joined by the device 11, to be more fully described hereinafter, and secured together in their closed position by the usual elastic securing means 12. The central box 8 may also have an embossed circular ornament 13 which serves to fill out the space between the opposing edges of lower box 10 and upper box 9 when they are closed down on central box 8, the outer surface of'said em bossed portion 13 being continued by the outer surface of the hinge construction 11 and the two ends 14C and 15 of said embossed ring also serving to receive the ends of the hinge pin 16. r1`he central box 8 is made considerably larger than any of the two other boxes and may be filled with powder 17 having powder-puff 18 placed on top of it. The upper box 9 keeps said powder-puff and said powder in their places when in a closed position and may have a circular mirror 19 arranged at the inner surface at the bottom of the same, said mirror being conveniently kept in position by circular metallic ring 2O which fric-tionally engages the inner surface of the cylindrical wall 21 of box 9. The lower box 10 is closed on the central box 8 from the opposing end and leaves the comparatively narrow space 22 between the bottoms of the two boxes, which space may be iilled with a disk 23 of rouge or other desired cosmetic preparation the amount of which being several times smaller than that of the powder 17.

The space containing the rouge may be formed in another way which is shown in Figv 7. The rouge or other cosmetic prepah ration may be arranged .in a raised central circular disk 24 of considerably smaller diameter than the outside diameter of the box 10, said disk 241 being` conveniently secured to the thin disk 25, fitting into box 10 and being kept in position by ring 26 preferably made of an elastic metallic material. The bottom of the central box 8 in this modiiication has a raised circular portion 27 into which the disk 24 will tit when boX 10 is closed upon boX 8.

The unitary hinge construction of my vanity case is made the following way: Continuing the line of embossed ring 13, l press a portion or' the material of the cylindrical wall of central box 8 inwardly to form a semi-cylindrical resting surface 28 'for my hinge construction. lnto said semicylinder 2S are placed the hinge sleeve 29 ol upper box 9 and the two hinge sleeves 30 of lower box 10. Said hinge sleeves-are secured together and the two outside boxes are kept in their places and fastened to the cen trai boi; 8 by the hinge pin 16 which is resting in the somewhat enlarged ends 14 and 15 of the central embossed ring 13.

:is will be seen by inspecting the drawings, especially Fig. 3, my vanity case can be opened at both ends, held in one hand and both, powder 'and rouge, can be used simultaneously without any trouble, while the mirror inserted in box 9 will at the same time enable the user to see her face. An-

. other advantage ot this vanity case is that it will have room for several times the amount ot powder than that of the rouge,which is the usually desired proportion.

My vanity case has also a very attractive appearance and will in a small compact construction contain allthe usual toilette necessities which ladies like to carry around with them. The three boxes of my vanity case are held together by a simple unitary hinge construction and the contents of each are always separated from one another and can be easily renewed or replaced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A device of the class described comprising a central receptacle having on its outer surface a semi-circular embossed portion, a length thereoiC being inwardly pressed to form an oppositely facing semi-cylindrical surface, an upper and a lower box closing upon the respective ends of the central receptacle, each boX being formed with a hinged sleeve to t within the said semicylindrical surface and to form a continua tion of the embossing, and a pintle connecting said hinge sleeves and bearing at its ends between the extremities of the semi-cylinch'i-V cal surface and the. adjacent portions of the embossing, substantially as set forth.

Q. A device of the class described comprising a central receptaclelhaving on its outer surface an embossed portion, a length thereot' being inwardly pressed to form an oppositely facing semi-cylindrical surface, an upper and a lower boX closing upon the respective ends of the central receptacle, each of said boxes vhaving a hinged sleeve to conform with the semi-cylindrical surface, and a pintle connecting said hinged sleeves and bearing at its ends between the adjacent extremities of the embossed portion and the semi-cylindrical portion, substantiallyl as set forth. l

l. A receptacle of the class described com-V prising a central box formed with a peripheral embossing, two opposingly arranged boxes adapted to close on said central box at its opposing ends so as to be separated by `the embossing on the central box, and a hinge structure connecting all of said boxes and interposed in a segment of the embossing and being of substantially the same width as the embossing substantially as 'set forth. 1

Signed at New York, in the countyv of New York and State of New York this 11th day of July, A.. D. 1922.

SIMON MORRISON. 

